Week 78: RSS, Build, and other small bits

7 Aug, 2022

This week was a bit sporadic because of work taking up a lot of time and headspace, but I did find time to think about newspapers, work a bit more on blender lessons, and read. RSS Newspaper I spent my holidays reflecting a bit about my use of time on social media, and how to stay up to date with “the industry” and people whose work I like. Twitter has brought me so much joy, allowing me to digest an incredible amount of news and work from a wide range of organizations and people. ...

Week 77: Blender and back to work

31 Jul, 2022

This week has mostly been about getting to work after three weeks vacation. I’m still pretty hooked on building a fun 3D world with LEGO elements for my website. To do that, as mentioned last week, I need to learn a bit more about Blender. I’m almost done with Bruno Simon’s first lesson on creating a scene in Blender, and when I’m done with that, next lesson is about baking and exporting the scene for use with three. ...

Week 76: LEGO, physics and portfolios

26 Jul, 2022

This last vacation week, I got around to doing one of the things I love - intersecting different interests. Like every designer, it seems, I’ve been wanting to update my portfolio for a while. Mainly with the work from my time at LEGO. Another thing I’ve wanted to do for a while was to play with three.js and it’s ability to load LDraw files (LDraw is an open, community-driven standard and repository for LEGO CAD models). ...

Week 75: Web3 and thinking in bits

17 Jul, 2022

Web 3 I’ve been trying to ignore Web3, and NFTs in particular, for a while. I think apes and black PNGs selling for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars is dumb. But I’m excited to see computer artists who’ve barely been making a living for years finally achieve financial success. A few weeks ago, I started studying web3. First by listening to the NFTs, Blockchain, Social Tokens with Sean Bonner episode on Julian Bleecker’s podcast. ...

Week 74: Visual experiments

10 Jul, 2022

Music and visual experiments I’ve been playing the piano since I was a kid, in my teenage years I dabbled in computer music and synthesis, and a couple of years ago I got into modular synthesis. Since I moved back to Denmark and got a piano again, I’ve been curious how to marry the analog and digital music… and how to marry that with my new curiousity with three.js and shader programming. ...